Getting Started with Flex and PHP

Ryan Stewart ryan@adobe.com blog.digitalbackcountry.com @ryanstewart github.com/ryanstewart Live in Seattle, WA (Born in Glenwood Springs) Into: Beer, Mountaineering, Geolocation Adobe evangelist for 3.5 years 13 T 500100 4400259

Agenda What is Flex? Flex and PHP: The Why and the Workﬂows Advanced PHP Features with Flex Using PHP and the Flash Platform

Flex is Not: Basic Animations Banner Ads Simple Video Menu Bars Small Pieces of Interactivity

Pyramid of Flash Features and Use Cases RIAs, Games Real-Time Collaboration Data Visualization, Gestures Interactive Widgets, Streaming Video, Advanced Drawing, Sound Generation, Filters/ Effects Simple Animation, Vector Graphics, Banner Ads, 5 Progressive Video

Pyramid of Flash Features and Use Cases RIAs, Games Real-Time Collaboration Data Visualization, Gestures Interactive Widgets, Streaming Video, Advanced Drawing, Sound Generation, Filters/ Effects Simple Animation, Vector Graphics, Banner Ads, Progressive Video HTML5

Pyramid of Flash Features and Use Cases RIAs, Games Flex Real-Time Collaboration Data Visualization, Gestures Interactive Widgets, Streaming Video, Advanced Drawing, Sound Generation, Filters/ Effects Simple Animation, Vector Graphics, Banner Ads, Progressive Video HTML5

Flex is Applications

Flex is for Developers Open Source SDK Familiar Programming Model 3rd Party Libraries and Frameworks Developer Tutorials

Flex is Rich, Extensible Components

Flex is Consistency

Flex is Productivity

Developer Tooling

Flash Builder Built on Eclipse Code completion, syntax highlighting Includes debugger, network monitor Build desktop or browser apps

Other Flex Developer Tools Visual Studio Plugin IntelliJ TextMate Bundles

How Flex and PHP Work Together In-Browser Applications Desktop/Mobile Apps Compile to SWF Package Flex Framework Components, Data Connection Effects Debugger, Validators, APIs, Compiler, XML / JSON / AMF / HTTP(S) / SOAP / Socket / RTMP PHP Code Exposed as Services that connects calls data from external data sources

Your ﬁrst Flex App

Easily Connect to Data

Flash Builder Data Wizards Create PHP classes based on a database Easily connect to any exposed services Test operations and deﬁne types Generate forms based on data types Bind data to interface components

AMF and the Zend Framework

Intro to AMF A binary ﬁle format that represents a serialized ActionScript object Created as a way to exchange data with the Flash Player Allows you to map data types to Flash Player types Open Speciﬁcation

AMF and PHP Projects AMFPHP - Great, open source, easy to use, still the standard ZendAMF - Part of the Zend Framework, most up to date WebORB PHP - Part of WebORB family, comes with code generation tools SaberAMF - Lightweight AMF implementation, similar to AMFPHP

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What About Design?

Designing Flex The ability to tweak styles with CSS Change themes that affect every component Work with a designer to skin components

Designer/ Developer Workﬂow Flex’s component model separates design from logic Allows developers to take and easily integrate designer content Flash Catalyst is the UI designer for Flex

Leveraging the Designer in Flex

Taking Flex and PHP Further

Real-Time Data Over Sockets

Typical HTTP Call Client Server Request Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Response Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Repeat

Socket Call Client Server Connection Push

PHP Can Act as Socket Server Flex can Connect via Socket Class Provides the capability to roll your own real-time data access

Using PHP to Manage Collaboration

LiveCycle Collaboration Services Cloud-based service for collaboration Uses Flash to enable real-time data transfer Includes a PHP library for managing service

PHP and Collaboration Management, authentication

Flashndroid

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